This is usually the time of year our collective human minds reflect on the past twelve months of our lives. But between living and dying, we’re continuously spinning on the wheel of life.
This is also a time when a lot of people try to figure out the meaning of life, or look to God– God can exist or not, life can be meaningless or important, either way– we’re on this big wheel that goes round and round and it never stops. At any given moment, you can be flying high, and it’s all a bed of roses. But one more spin and it’s broken glasses, shattered dreams and day turning into night, hope into helplessness. There’s something scary about that and there’s something beautiful about it.
Sometimes life hits you right smack in the eye — you can be facing a moment that is literally a life or death situation or having the best time of your life. When you’re faced with true life – it’s either you’re at the height of happiness or the depth of despair. And that’s what I find quietly beautiful and profoundly sad about it.
Our lives is always spinning and revolving and we should embrace it wholeheartedly. We should endeavour to enjoy as many amazing experiences as we can find. And we should not fear the bad times slipping in because they’re part of the tapestry of life. Even if the worst imaginable thing has happened, we have to believe that there is some spark to be found in the most dismal of times. There’s always a silver lining behind the darkness.
And we have to keep in mind that whichever side of the wheel we’re on — the other side is waiting for us; if it’s going to come, and when it does, we have to be ready with our eyes wide open. Because you never know what’s coming or what it’s going to be. Maybe what is written is true, we each have a destiny to fulfil and we’re all floating around accidental-like on a breeze — and both are happening at the same time.
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How was your Christmas? Mine was sweet & memorable.
